Ukrainaz, oraindik ere?

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Russia and Ukraine are in discussions to end the Ukraine war.

Orbán Viktor@PM_ViktorOrban

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It is clear that the proposal of the @EU_Commission on Ukraine’s EU accession is unfounded and poorly prepared. There is no place for it on the agenda of the December #EUCO !

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Wow, the US will stop giving money to Ukraine… in 3 weeks

Because they only fund wars and the war is lost. Reconstruction is someone else’s job.

This can only be seen as another stunning American defeat, resulting in hundreds of thousands of people dead and a country wrecked. Which could all have easily been avoided.

And as ever, I suspect very little lessons will be learned. Heck, they’re already fighting the next war.

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Now these Ukrainian teenagers will be ideologically programmed and sent to the trenches. Ukraine will have enough mobilization resources for a long time, until all the inhabitants of Ukraine run out.

https://t.me/vicktop55/18893

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Germany’s Spiegel now admits Russia is winning the war – The “pro-Ukrainian” narrative that Ukraine was winning served the purpose of keeping the war going instead of negotiating, which has devastated Ukraine – With friends like these who needs enemies

https://spiegel.de/ausland/russland-und-die-ukraine-warum-wladimir-putin-allen-grund-hat-mit-sich-zufrieden-zu-sein-a-2799e5c6-4642-497c-b325-97c418f7c94d

Gabe@GabeZZOZZ

Ukraine is the BIGGEST money laundering scheme since Afghanistan

Ukrainians don’t fight for their “freedom”

Ukraine was free before the coup in 2014, now the whole country is owned by foreign companies like BlackRock, JP Morgan, Raytheon, etc.

Ukraine will never be free as long as the corrupt regime in Kiev is still in control of the country

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

Bai, cantamañanas! Mundu berri bat:

https://twitter.com/GabeZZOZZ/status/1731256138337862052

@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

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Bai, txoriburu kaskarin!

Mundu berri bat: https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1730978292407144692

Tximeleta al zara NATOzale kaskarina?

“US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told European leaders to “stop talking to Ukraine about NATO.” This was stated by People’s Deputy Alexey Goncharenko, citing sources in Washington. “There will be no NATO. The topic of NATO irritates the US elite and they have clearly signaled that Ukraine will not become a member of the alliance immediately after the war. There will be some movements into the Alliance. We are receiving some leniency. But the fact that in 2024 we will become members, no,” writes Goncharenko. According to him, the Office of the President has “come to terms with this” and the main strategy of the Ukrainian authorities now is accession to the EU.”

https://strana.today/news/452121-ukraine-stoit-zabyt-o-nato-nardep-honcharenko.html

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Zelensky DROPS OUT From Call With US Senators; Tucker Carlson Decries CO… https://youtu.be/Ckf0yy7mY9o?si=T47CCFyGK16NtUNc

Honen bidez:

@YouTube

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Zelensky DROPS OUT From Call With US Senators; Tucker Carlson Decries…

Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss President Zelensky’s cancelled address to United States senat

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Everyone need to watch that

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Gabe@GabeZZOZZ

Can’t believe that millions of Russians gave their lives to free Europe from Hitler’s horrendous Nazi regime, only for Europe to become a US colony a few years later Today, Europe is sending weapons to the Nazis in Ukraine to help them fight against the Russians These are sad times we live in…

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History will judge us harshly if we turn our back on freedom’s cause in Ukraine. We can’t let Putin win.

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Biden’s policy of supporting Ukraine is like owning a bunch of over-leveraged sub-prime mortgages…ain’t no amount of rhetoric can convert it into a sound investment. It is over. The bubble is burst. Deal with the consequences like an adult.

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Aid to Ukraine falls to historic low – Kiel Institute for the World Economy The total value of the new #aid packages to #Ukraine is estimated at just €2.11 billion between August and October 2023 – the lowest amount since January 2022

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Finally the Bull Charged

Scott Ritter

11 Jun 2023

(https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/finally-the-bull-charged?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share)

A matador and fighting bull

Finally the bull charged, the horse leaders ran for the barrera, the picador hit too far back, and the bull got under the horse, lifted him, threw him onto his back.

Zurito watched. The monos, in their red shirts, running out to drag the picador clear. The picador, now on his feet, swearing and flopping his arms. Manuel and Hernandez standing ready with their capes. And the bull, the great, black bull, with a horse on his back, hooves dangling, the bridle caught in the horns. Black bull with a horse on his back, staggering short-legged, then arching his neck and lifting, thrusting, charging to slide the horse off, horse sliding down. Then the bull into a lunging charge at the cape Manuel spread for him.

Ernest Hemingway, The Short Stories

Finally the bull charged.

The long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive has finally begun. After months of handwringing and speculation, the western investment in Ukrainian military might has been put on display for the whole world to see—billions of dollars of advanced weaponry, drawn from NATO stocks, manned by Ukrainian soldiers who have been trained by NATO instructors, and whose actions have been shaped by NATO intelligence and directed by NATO planners. Let there be no doubt—this is a NATO offensive, a sad reflection on the reality that what was once called a simple proxy conflict has morphed into so much more—direct force-on-force combat between the collective west and Russia.

For Anne Applebaum, this offensive is an answer to her prayers. The Polish-American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian has for some time now been calling for such an action, a decisive blow by the collective west and Ukraine against a Russia she characterizes as autocratic and dangerous. The lessons of history have been shunted aside in favor of her feverish lust for Russian blood. Killing Russians, Applebaum believes, is the only way for the civilized west to show the Russian nation—autocrats and automatons alike—that the price for regional hegemony is too high for the Russian people and their government to bear.

Anne Applebaum (Photo: Olga Majrowska)

In a new article she penned for The Atlantic, Applebaum—a staff writer for the journal— writes of things she has no knowledge of or experience in, namely military operations, both operational and psychological. Like the dilletante she is, Applebaum throws about buzz phrases as if by putting them down on paper, it somehow makes them real, and the schemes they describe possible.

Applebaum, however, is hampered by her inadequacy as a military analyst and—perhaps more importantly—her total ignorance of the character of the Russian people, their leadership, and the nation they represent collectively. Elegantly stated ignorance is Applebaum’s forte, especially when it comes to glossing over both the causation and consequences of a conflict she has been promoting her entire adult life.Scott Ritter will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 73 of Ask the Inspector.

Applebaum has turned an extensive stint in academia, inclusive of a six-month exchange program as a student to Leningrad circa 1985, into the intellectual foundation of a career spent sorting through the detritus of Soviet history, to reimagine Stalin and the Soviet experience in the worst possible light. It is not that one would be desirous of reimagining Stalin and Stalinism as the golden era of Soviet rule.

But perspective, and historical accuracy, do matter, and Applebaum’s writing seems destined to a particular brand of Russophobic western elite pre-programmed into accepting at face value anything negative about Stalin and his times. Her hatred for everything Russian, especially its leader, Vladimir Putin, drips from every paragraph she pens. She sees herself and the collective west as combatants in the greater struggle against what she derisively calls “Putinism.”

“[A]s long as Russia is ruled by [Vladimir] Putin,” Applebaum wrote recently, “then Russia is at war with us [i.e., the collective west] too.”

This fight is not theoretical. It requires armies, strategies, weapons, and long-term plans…NATO can no longer operate as if it might someday be required to defend itself; it needs to start operating as it did during the Cold War, on the assumption that an invasion could happen at any time.

Germany’s decision to raise defense spending by 100 billion euros is a good start; so is Denmark’s declaration that it too will boost defense spending. But deeper military and intelligence coordination might require new institutions—perhaps a voluntary European Legion, connected to the European Union, or a Baltic alliance that includes Sweden and Finland—and different thinking about where and how we invest in European and Pacific defense.

Applebaum’s words are a direct reflection of the sentiment expressed by one of her mentors, the Hungarian billionaire George Soros. In 1993, Soros wrote an article where Applebaum’s “new institution” thematic was expressed in more direct terms. Soros wrote of the need for a new world order “based on the United States as the remaining superpower and on open society as the organizing principle.”

It consists of a series of alliances, the most important of which is NATO and, through NATO, the Partnership for Peace which girds the Northern Hemisphere. The United States would not be called upon to act as the policeman of the world. When it acts, it would act in conjunction with others. Incidentally, the combination of manpower from Eastern Europe with the technical capabilities of NATO would greatly enhance the military potential of the Partnership because it would reduce the risk of body bags for NATO countries, which is the main constraint on their willingness to act. This is a viable alternative to the looming world disorder.

The combination of manpower from Eastern Europe with the technical capabilities of NATO as a mechanism for reducing the risk of body bags for NATO countries sounds very much like precisely what is taking place today in the current struggle between Ukraine and Russia. The imagery of destroyed Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles belies the reality that the charred bodies trapped inside these wrecked vehicles and scattered in the fields surrounding the scene of their collective demise, are Ukrainian.

NATO technical capabilities and Ukrainian manpower does, in fact, reduce the risk of NATO body bags. It also emboldens western writers such as Applebaum to urge the Ukrainians on in a fight with Russia neither they nor the west has a chance of winning. The goal of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Applebaum contends, is to “convince the Russian elite that the war was a mistake and that Russia can’t win it, not in the short term and not in the long term, either.”

Applebaum would do well to reflect on the reality that the anti-Putin Russian elite she fantasizes about influencing through the nexus of NATO technical capabilities and Ukrainian blood does not exist inside Russia any longer. Liliya Vezhevatova, an anti-war and LGTBQ activist from Novosibirsk who fled to Armenia following the initiation of Russia’s Special Military Operation in February 2022, noted that before the conflict started her organization could boast around 2,000 activists. Today that number is down to around 200.  

“It is an irony of this conflict,” Vezhevatova laments, “that the female relatives of perished soldiers often hold the most ardent pro-war positions.”  Vezhevatova explains this phenomenon by declaring that these mothers have been raised on the mythology of the “Great Patriotic War” (World War II), which casts the mother of a soldier as a heroic figure. “The situation is complicated by deep psychological mechanisms at play,” Vezhevatova notes. “It is hard to accept that a loved one perished for no reason.”

Bideoa: https://youtu.be/tncTVsd3O2E

Vezhevatova has a point—no mother would like to see the son she bore and raised die for no reason. But what Vezhevatova and Applebaum fail to see is the reality that the mothers and wives of the men fighting for Russia against Ukraine and the collective west are, in their minds, fighting for Mother Russia’s very survival. The monuments in Volgograd erected to commemorate the heroism of the Russian soldier in defense of his homeland (“Stand to Death”) and the awe-inspiring sight of Mother Russia beckoning her men forward in defense of their homeland (“The Motherland Calls”) is more than simple mythology weaponized for psychological manipulation. It is reflective of a deep patriotism that runs through the blood of most Russian women today.

Vezhevatova has abandoned her country, opting to live abroad while supporting westerners like Applebaum who are content with sacrificing Ukrainian men in the name of furthering western anti-Russian objectives. She has forsaken her homeland. Not so the women of Russia who remain. They know what is at stake. They know, as did their grandmothers before them, what needs to be done, inclusive of the horrible sacrifices that entails.

The statues “Stand to Death” (foreground) and “The Motherland Calls” (background), Volgograd

Meanwhile, Applebaum sits in the relative safety of her writer’s perch, claiming to be a friend of Ukraine all the while urging the men of Ukraine forward to slaughter.

Applebaum’s bloodlust brings to mind a passage from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 classic novel, The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway touches upon the dichotomy of killing one’s friends in a short conversation between Romero, a Spanish bullfighter, and Lady Brett Ashley, a British widow.

“The bulls are my best friends,” Romero says in Spanish. His words are translated into English by Jake, an American expatriate and friend of Lady Ashley.

“You kill your friends?” Lady Ashley replies.

“Always,” Romero says in English, laughing.

It is the imagery of the bullfight that best describes Anne Applebaum’s desire to see Ukrainians killed in battle against the Russians. She treats the Ukrainian counteroffensive as a blood sport, a dance to the death between a matador and a fighting bull.

Finally the bull charged…

The contemporary Lebanese writer, Malak El Halabi, wrote about her experience watching a bullfight.

[T]o watch the bull enter the arena…To watch one bull surrounded by a matador and his six assistants. To watch the matador confronting the bull with the capote, performing a series of passes, just before the picador on a horse stabs the bull’s neck, weakening the neck muscles and leading to the animal’s first loss of blood…Starting a game with only one side having decided fully to engage in while making sure all the odds will be in the favor of him being a predetermined winner. It was this moment precisely that made me feel part of something immoral. The unfair rules of the game. The indifferent bull being begged to react, being pushed to the edge of fury. The bull, tired and peaceful. The bull, being teased relentlessly. The bull being pushed to a game he isn’t interested in. And the matador getting credits for an unfair game he set.

Yes, I went to watch a bull fight and yes the play of colors is marvelous. The matador’s costume is breathtaking and to be sitting in an arena fills your lungs with the sands of time. But to see the amount of claps the spill of blood is getting was beyond what I can endure. To hear the amount of claps injustice brings is astonishing. You understand a lot about human nature, about the wars taking place every day, about poverty and starvation…You understand a lot about humans’ thirst for injustice and violence as a way to empower hidden insecurities. Replace the bull and replace the matador. And the arena will still be there. And you’ll hear the claps. You’ve been hearing them ever since you opened your eyes.

Finally the bull charged…

Yes, the great Ukrainian counteroffensive has finally begun. The Ukrainian bull has been prodded into the arena by the collective west. The Ukrainian bull, weakened by the provision of inadequate weaponry and filled with the false promise of western support, does not comprehend that he is merely a pawn in a greater game, Eastern European manpower to be married up with NATO technology in a bid to weaken Russia. Maddened by the pain, blinded with fury, the Ukrainian bull sees the red cape…

Finally the bull charged…

Close your eyes, and you can hear the claps of the collective west urging the Ukrainian bull on.

Open your eyes, and you will see Anne Applebaum and her ilk reveling in the blood being spilt, cheering the slaughter and indifferent to the Ukrainian bull’s agony as the Matador slides the blade into his flesh.

Finally the bull charged…

This war will end one day, and when it does, Anne Applebaum and the collective west will have much to answer for.

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Reporter: Are you saying any member of congress who votes against aid to Ukraine is voting for Putin?  Sullivan:

I believe that any member of congress who does not support funding for Ukraine is voting for an outcome that will make it easier for Putin to prevail.

Glenn Diesen@Glenn_Diesen

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Zelensky assassinated Illya Kyva, a former member of the political opposition who had fled to Russia

And again Victoria Nulland. Tucker Carlson: “Doesn’t it seem strange to you that the single,

perhaps most significant voice in this entire discussion is a woman named Victoria Nuland, the Deputy Secretary of State? She was the driving force behind the Iraq War, which, of course, was a disaster for the United States. She was never punished for this. Moreover, she has risen through the ranks and is now waging war in Ukraine.”

Thomas Massie, US Congressman: I don’t know. Some of these “deep state” bureaucrats remind me of kids who had no friends in high school. Someone did something bad to them a long time ago, and now they have some kind of power. They figure out how to capture her and plan to take revenge on everyone else. Victoria Nuland was at a secret briefing on Israel for all members of Congress just a few weeks ago. And I thought, “Wait a minute, she’s failed multiple times. Why is she being brought into the light? She is not trusted. Why is she giving instructions to Congress right now?”

https://t.me/vicktop55/19007

Igor Lopatonok@lopatonok

Remember this two – on they hands blood of hundreds of my fellow Ukrainians.

That war criminals Toria Nuland and Andrew Yermak serving not they nations, but military industrial complex.

Never was elected by people to any public office

War hawks and warmongers

I hope that days will come when we can bring them to justice and keep them accountable!!!

Watch our film Ukraine on Fire and sequel – Revealing Ukraine to find out who is produce that war in Ukraine

Sorry but Hersh’s latest article is supposition from a western viewpoint at best & just because someone who’s renowned or admired writes something doesn’t mean it’s true. Especially when advocating in favor of intelligence agencies & constantly only from their perspective. The article states “It is thought that Putin would want to make a deal,” alleging Russian losses were disproportionate.

Here’s why I think this is an unlikely scenario:

1) This is supposition about what the Russian leader might do. And that’s all it is. Intelligence agents, State Dept spooks, constantly & willingly telling only one journalist said information this often, has an agenda. And that’s been clear for months from these anonymous* revelations.

2) Where are they getting this? Ukraine’s losses have been disproportionate. Yes there’s loss of life on both sides. But why would Russia have to prove anything to the west by holding new elections in the way they would want? Why would the need to appease the west? They don’t need them, quite the other way around. Also the source mentions a stalemate. This isn’t a stalemate. Ukraine has essentially lost and refused to admit defeat.

3) If Russia would be this naive to trust anything the west says as we’ve been here before, it would discredit everything they’ve done. Plus it would destroy any purpose that it had in the SMO. Putin would lose so much public support. It makes 0 sense.

4) The Minsk agreements all show the west has 0 intention of respecting anything. To accept Ukraine into NATO would literally violate its own red line. Most of NATO doesn’t even want Ukraine to join it & it’s less of likelihood now that Zelenskyy and other have admitted to the failure of the counteroffensive.

5) Russia is extremely diplomatic yes but things have changed in terms of the point of no return. Peace is possible of course as has been said by both the RFM and the Kremlin, but only if Russia’s demands are meant to ensure this won’t happen again. Yet this entire scenario lays out the foundations for this to continue and for some sort of control by the west to be established.

6) Russia wants the war to end, as do many others and Ukraine is already in bed with NATO, so it’s not even that it’s acceptance would change much outwardly. But in terms of inward actions, in terms of what joining NATO means in the language of war, even beyond article 5, this along with other concessions made by Russia doesn’t seem like a realistic solution they’d want.

They understand Ukraine as a proxy will always continue to be used by the west for the final objective: The balkanization of Russia.

From Fiorella in Moscow.

I concur.

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100% I have a similar “catch up” story. Many, many, months after I documented Ukraine’s mass-firing of rockets containing “Petal” mines onto Donetsk and surrounding cities, onto civilians, HRW later finally reported on Ukraine’s firing the mines elsewhere (but ignored Donetsk)